[ale] Kernel Panic

[Joe Knapka]

Danny Cox <danscox at mindspring.com> writes:

> Brandon,
> 
> On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 17:23, Brandon Colbert wrote:
> > My client is experiencing boot problem. I had to use a boot disk to
> > boot their server. After I repaired, resized the /boot partition and
> > mbr it finally booted up with out the boot disk, but half-way during
> > the boot process I got this message (Kernel panic no init found try
> > passing init = option to kernel)
> > and then the keyboard locks up leaving the caps lock and scroll lock
> > indicator light flashing.
> >  
> > When I put in the boot disk, it boots up fine.
> >  
> > Can some one help me solve this problem?
> 
> 	Sounds like perhaps the kernel on the hard disk is corrupt.  If you can
> rebuild it somehow, go for it.  If you can re-install the kernel rpm,
> that may do it.

Since he appears to be using LILO, another possibility is that the
partition table has been nooked. LILO remembers physical sector
addresses, so it will still find the kernel even if the
partition/filesystem the kernel exists on is gone. The very
first thing I'd do is boot from a rescue disk such as TomsRootBoot
and do an 'fdisk /dev/hda' to verify the partition structure.
Then try to mount the existing filesystems.

Cheers,

-- Joe

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